Top 100 Steve Carell Quotes
#1. Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it's just one incredible topping himself on every take.
Lucy Punch
#2. Steve Carell's Foxcatcher look took two hours to put on including his hairstyling and make-up. Just for comparison, it took me three hours today to prepare for my role as 'human woman'.
Tina Fey
#3. Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.
Ben Lyons
#4. I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have been enough. Gosh, I love working with that guy. He's just the best.
Jennifer Garner
#5. I watched all the Academy screeners and I wanted to slit my wrists. Whether they are good or not good, I don't know why you make Foxcatcher? I don't know why you do it. What is it giving anybody except to have Steve Carell put on a rubber nose?
Rob Cohen
#6. I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.
Gillian Jacobs
#7. I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.
Ryan Gosling
#8. I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's always a tension between what's good for the series and what's good for an episode, because the more closure you put on an episode, the more significant feeling it is.
Greg Daniels
#9. It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.
Steve Buscemi
#10. Steve Carell is good. I like him. Who else? Here's another depressing thing: animation has kind of taken over, too. You know, 'Family Guy?' I watch that because the guy is good.
Joe Flaherty
#11. I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
Sam Huntington
#13. One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.
Dwayne Johnson
#14. On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.
Greg Daniels
#15. Steve Carell, we've been nodding at each other for years now.
Jane Lynch
#16. I've been an 'Office' fan from day one. I knew Steve Carell in Chicago back in the day, so I started watching to support a Chicago guy and immediately got hooked on that show.
Jim O'Heir
#17. In all of my press junkets for 'Spy Kids,' I was saying that my two favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Steve Carell. And I ended up getting to work with both of them.
Mason Cook
#18. I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor ... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.
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#19. Some people just derive great joy from making other people laugh. And I do, but I don't feel like I need to do it 24 hours a day.
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#20. The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
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#21. I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done.
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#22. I don't think something necessarily has to be mean or cynical to represent 'edgy.' I think 'edgy' can mean a lot of different things.
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#23. You're so in love with your children that you'd do anything for them; that's not necessarily the best thing.
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#24. What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?
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#25. Being a leading man ... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.
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#26. I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.
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#27. In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.
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#28. I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'
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#29. I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.
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#30. Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information.
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#31. It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.
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#32. Different things just strike people differently. And it's so subjective, too. Because what makes one person laugh won't make others laugh. I guess it's kind of checkerboarded.
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#33. Style advice? Always wear clothes ... that are ... clean, for starters. An added bonus if it is pressed as well. Unless you are wearing clothes that are supposed to look rumpled.
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#34. My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad.
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#35. For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.
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#36. I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.
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#37. It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.
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#38. Everybody should be normal. Everybody should be nice. I think they go hand in hand, and that to me is the default setting.
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#39. Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.
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#40. I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.
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#41. You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.
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#42. I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.
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#43. Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.
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#44. I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.
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#45. I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
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#46. My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was 'Caroselli' and it was changed in the mid '50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name 'Caroselli.'
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#47. It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
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#48. Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.
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#49. Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.
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#50. I wasn't a class clown, I never developed this comedic flair as a kid. Even when I decided to become an actor, it was just to be an actor, not necessarily a comedic actor. I wasn't that guy who struck out with women so he became really funny, and that's when the women started to like him.
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#51. I think there's a little bit of idiot in everybody and I think some people cover it better than others but I think I am very much a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve.
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#52. Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.
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#53. Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.
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#54. In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.
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#55. I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.
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#56. That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.
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#57. For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
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#58. A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.
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#59. I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.
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#60. I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don't even have an earpiece for my cell phone.
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#61. I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.
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#62. I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn't cotton candy like the guy said ... my tummy itches.
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#63. Six-year-olds are very wrapped up in their own lives, and that's the way it should be.
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#64. I hate hospitals, in my mind they are associated with sickness.
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#65. 'Anchorman' ... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.
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#66. When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.
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#67. We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.
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#68. I'm a fun dad, but I don't know if I'm the fun, crazy dad.
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#69. Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.
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#70. I find things funny that aren't self-aware. That don't know they're funny, and I think the same can hold true for drama. If you think you're in this tragedy and you play it for tragedy, there's a self-awareness there that I think takes you out of watching it and I believe it cuts both ways.
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#71. How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley ... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
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#72. Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.
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#73. If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
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#74. Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.
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#75. It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places. This was a normal, relatable place that I think a lot of people have in their childhood.
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#76. My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn't something to be constantly examined or picked apart.
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#77. Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.
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#78. Because I went from the 'Daily Show' where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show, to 'Bruce Almighty' where I played a news guy, to 'Anchorman' where I played a news guy, now I'm ... yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits.
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#79. Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.
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#80. In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth.
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#81. I am always the type of person who is waiting for the other shoe to drop and for it to peter out and end. And if it does that's fine.
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#82. People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.
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#83. It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.
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#84. As soon as you start to talk about your own mannerisms, you are screwed. Because if you are aware of your own mannerisms, or beyond that even what makes any one thing funny to people, I really ascribe to that that if you start deconstructing it too much, it is immediately not funny.
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#85. I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.
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#86. I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
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#87. We always spend the summer together. My wife and kids, we always go back to Massachusetts and spend the summer there near where my wife and I both grew up. I wasn't willing to sacrifice the summer to go elsewhere.
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#88. My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny.
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#89. My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.
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#90. People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.
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#91. You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.
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#92. I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.
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#93. From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.
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#94. I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.
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#95. I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.
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#96. There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything.
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#97. I'm not a crazy Vegas guy. I'm not a gambler.
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#98. I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.
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#99. Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.
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#100. I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.
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